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   Row , a. & adv. [See Rough.] Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] “Lock he never so row.”
   Chaucer.
   
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   Row, n. [Abbrev. fr. rouse, n.] A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.]
   Byron.
   
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   Row , n. [OE. rowe, rawe, rewe, AS. rāw, rw; probably akin to D. rij, G. reihe; cf. Skr. rkhā a line, stroke.] A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns.
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   And there were windows in three rows.
   1 Kings vii. 4.
   
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   The bright seraphim in burning row.
   Milton.
   
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   Row culture (Agric.), the practice of cultivating crops in drills. -- Row of points (Geom.), the points on a line, infinite in number, as the points in which a pencil of rays is intersected by a line.
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   Row , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Rowing.] [AS. rwan; akin to D. roeijen, MHG. rüejen, Dan. roe, Sw. ro, Icel. ra, L. remus oar, Gr. , Skr. aritra. √8. Cf. Rudder.]
   To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.
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   To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.
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   Row, v. i.
   To use the oar; as, to row well.
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   To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.
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   Row, n. The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
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